strontium
Definitions
General Science
- noun a radioactive metallic element
Electronics
- A soft and pale yellow metallic chemical element whose atomic number is 38. It is an alkaline-earth metal, is extremely reactive, and has around 30 known isotopes, of which 4 are stable. It is used, for instance, as a getter in vacuum tubes, and in nuclear batteries. Its chemical symbol is Sr.
- chemical symbolSr
- abbreviation in Internet addresses, the top-level domain for Suriname
Origin & History of “strontium”
The element
strontium gets its
name from the Strontian
area of the Highland region of Scotland,
which contains
lead mines in which strontium was
first discovered. Indeed, it was originally called
strontian; the latinized version
strontium was introduced by the chemist Sir Humphry Davy in 1808.
